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Don Winslow Inspirational Quotes (16)

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I have to remind the people who put down East Coast surfing that Kelly Slater is from Florida.
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There are various kinds of savagery: emotional, spiritual, economic, and cultural savagery.
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We need to do something about gun violence in America. But every time one of these things happen, we say the same thing, and then we don't seem to be able to do anything. And that needs to change.
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I never think about a movie when I'm writing a book, because I think only two things could happen and both of them are bad. You write a lousy novel and a lousy film.
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I think one of the problems with being a fiction writer these days is that you can't keep up with the headlines. Things that people would say are absurd occur the next day or they come out of somebody's mouth. There are days I just wanna give up.
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I have a life, I have a wife. I have an adult son who I'm very close to, and friends. I go hiking almost every day, four to six miles. In the summer, I'm out surfing or swimming. I think that real, human relationships with people mostly balance dark places in my work.
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The Force deals a lot with the heroin epidemic, which I'm sorry to know people are experiencing in Canada.
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The Americans take a product that literally grows on trees and turn it into a valuable commodity. Without them, cocaine and marijuana would be like oranges, and instead of making billions smuggling it, I’d be making pennies doing stoop labor in some California field, picking it.
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I think you can use fiction to get inside people's minds.
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Alcoholism, tobacco, drunk driving, these things will always be with us. There's always going to be a certain percentage of any population that is addicted to certain substances.
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Ridley Scott obviously an iconic director, he's made some fantastic films. Obviously a very smart, very tasteful, thoughtful guy. So yeah, I'm in good shape got Ridley Scott with The Cartel.
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Shane Salerno and I adapted my book Savages together, and I learned a lot about adaptation. I think it's an extremely difficult thing to do adaptation might even be more difficult than writing an original screenplay. It's so much a matter of choices, making choices of what to leave in. It was an education.
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And the most dangerous place on earth - Is where you’re safe.
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I don't recognize myself. I don't know who I am anymore. And it's all fun and games until someone loses an I.
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If you let people believe that you are weak, sooner or later you’re going to have to kill them.
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Bookstores never seem to know where to put me on the shelves. But I do. I love my genre and I love those writers, so I am happy to be considered a crime writer. That's what I consider myself.
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